11 Jun 2024
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The Earthshot Prize, the world’s most prestigious and impactful environmental award, arrives in Latin America for the first time today.
Now at the halfway point of the Earthshot Decade, The Earthshot Prize brings together its unique and now vast global community of leaders including Heads of State, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, young people, academics, scientists, businesses, innovators and philanthropists to inspire with ‘urgent optimism’ to repair our planet by 2030.
Finalists from each year of The Earthshot Prize so far, and from every corner of the globe, will gather in Rio de Janeiro alongside all 2025 Finalists. Selected from nearly 2,500 nominees, from 72 countries, the 2025 Finalists represent exceptional climate leadership. They include Brazilian start-up re.green, restoring forests with AI and creating jobs; Matter in the UK, fighting microplastic pollution; and, Barbados, the nation leading the way in inclusive and urgent climate action.
The Earthshot Prize Summit, a three-day programme running from Monday 3 to Wednesday 5 November, will feature high-level events, bilateral meetings and The Impact Assembly, a landmark event on Wednesday 5 designed to scale and accelerate the impact of the Finalists. The Earthshot Prize Summit culminates on Wednesday evening, at the Awards Night at the spectacular Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro.
For the first time ever, The Earthshot Prize Summit events will be located on ‘Earthshot Boulevard’ – a free, open-air experience transforming the area stretching from the Museum of Tomorrow to Pier 3 into a vibrant hub for public engagement, climate discussions and immersive environmental art.
Created with the Eleven Eleven Foundation, Earthshot Boulevard will feature Cool Globes, a striking exhibition of five globes for each Earthshot for the people of Rio to enjoy as well as a spectacular drone light show over Ipanema Beach on 4 November, featuring more than 600 drones. Using synchronised drones, powered by renewable energy, the show is an open event visible along the length of Ipanema Beach, best viewed at the eastern end – near Arpoador Rock – where the drone formations will appear most directly overhead.
The Boulevard will serve low-carbon cookies created by beloved Brazilian Biscoitê and 2024 Finalist Ferment’Up. Made with Ferment’Up® Fava, a cocoa and palm-oil-free ingredient, the cookies offer a rich, indulgent taste while reducing environmental impact.
Coffee trucks will also offer Earthshot Coffee – a regenerative Brazilian brew made from Macaw Coffee sustainable speciality beans, served with Nude’s sustainable oat milk in Notpla (2022 Winner) seaweed-coated cups and Klabin recyclable cups. Earthshot Coffee will be accompanied by Dengo chocolate, sourced ethically from local producers.
Cool Globes exhibition on Earthshot Boulevard will be a vibrant hub for public engagement and climate action
The Earthshot Prize Awards 2025 will take place at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro
Hosted by award-winning Brazilian broadcaster Luciano Huck, the Awards Night will also see Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade, the most decorated Brazilian and Latin American Olympian with six Olympic and nine World medals.
She will be joined by Sebastian Vettel, the youngest-ever Formula 1 World Champion and four-time title winner, known for his commitment to environmental causes and Indigenous Brazilian environmental activist, Txai Suruí, a leading voice for Brazil’s Indigenous communities and the environment.
During the Awards Night five 2025 Winners will be announced, each receiving £1 million (around R$7.3 million).
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There is nothing like The Earthshot Prize. In just five years, we’ve built an ambitious global network of climate leaders, a truly unparalleled community of innovators, policymakers, businesses and changemakers.
Together, we are proving that the solutions to our greatest challenges already exist, we just need to back them. At this critical halfway point in the Earthshot Decade, our momentum is unstoppable.
Members of The Earthshot Prize Council, Board of Trustees, and Global Alliance Partners will actively participate across the full Summit programme. Notable attendees include Jacinda Ardern, Christiana Figueres, and Eduardo Saverin from the Board of Trustees and Prize Council Members Wanjira Mathai, Nemonte Nenquimo and Naoko Yamazaki.
This collaborative spirit, which flows through to COP30 in Belém, Brazil, is reflected in the vital role Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities play in driving effective climate action.
Solving the climate crisis is not the work of one person, one government, or one sector, it is a collective effort. The Earthshot Prize is a powerful example of how a global community can come together around solutions that already exist.
As we look ahead to COP30 and embrace the spirit of ‘Mutirão’, a collective, healing effort for our planet, The Earthshot Prize takes centre stage to remind us what’s possible when innovation, optimism, and collaboration meet with purpose.
The Earthshot Prize shines a vital light on Indigenous leadership and solutions that have long been overlooked. Indigenous knowledge is crucial to effective climate action, especially as we approach COP30, because protecting our planet is inseparable from protecting our cultures and communities.
The star-studded Awards Night will be broadcast to an unprecedented audience of 34 million people in Brazil and the UK with partners BBC and Globo – airing on Multishow and Globoplay on 5 November, with a highlights show on TV Globo airing on 7 November, before streaming on BBC from 8 November. This will mark the biggest TV audience yet in the Prize’s history, amplifying the stories of the Winners around the world like never before.
Founded by HRH Prince William in 2020, The Earthshot Prize identifies, celebrates and backs 15 solutions each year from different geographies, sectors and stages in their life cycle, dedicated to solving our planet’s greatest challenges. In just five years, the Prize has protected and restored over 1 million square kilometres of land and oceans – the same size as France, Italy and Greece combined and unlocked over $500 million in funding for new climate action.
